“But, back to the sentence, it does state a fact that many who celebrate Luther may not realize that he deeply, passionately believed in things that are inimical to them — of course one does not include scholarly folks like you in this group.”
An, but then none of us should be following Luther anyway - though every Christian owes him a debt of gratitude.
well, yet that is what most do -- a break away on a different interpretation is even today seen among Seventh Day Adventists for instance, right?
I also disagree with your statement of "every Christian" -- we see things too much through the prism of Western Christianity.
The Eastern Orthodox didn't have and don't owe anything to Luther, neither do the ancient Syriac Churches or the Assyrian or Coptic or Armenian
Based on Luther's reactions and vituperative articles in his later years I do believe he regretted at least the method he used -- why do I believe that, because he saw people reforming his reformation and then reforming that second generation and so on
he saw how Calvin was indifferent about the Real Presence in the Eucharist and then was appalled by Zwingli denying it
Then he probably shook his head at the anabaptists and was enraged by the new Arians and Unitarians that popped up -- saying that "every man" is coming up with his own changed interpretation and every man is chopping and removing something or the other